Music
The school also has an award winning orchestra, whose conductor is Paul Rapi. Greenhill Orchestra has won the National Urdd Competition and got to the Music for Youth finals on a few occasions, and in July 2009 they came joint first. Orchestra tours are run every other year, the last one in 2011 was to Spain. Concerts are held three times a year and are well attended. Apart from the orchestra the school also has a windband, Jazz band and symphony orchestra that perform in concerts also. The school also benefits from county council music teachers who teach a range of musical instruments. Steffan Ciccoti an ex-member and came 3rd in the 2009 young musician of Wales.
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“The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.”
—José Bergamín (1895–1983)
“The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practise politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)
“Franceska: I was happy in the life I built up for myself. I put a fine high wall of music around me and nothing could touch me. I was safe and secure. And then you had to come along and knock it all down and I hate you for that.
Maxwell: On the contrary, you love me.”
—Muriel Box (b. 1905)